Job title:
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department:
Political Science
Bio/CV:
Marika Landau-Wells’s research broadly examines how cognitive processes—such as perception, attention, concept formation, and memory—shape political preferences and behavior. Her primary research project investigates how the psychological and neural foundations of threat perception influence policy preferences, with a particular focus on national security decision-making.
She holds an AB in Government from Harvard, an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Political Science from MIT. Before joining UC Berkeley, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where she worked in SaxeLab.
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